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Aspiration December 2009 Newsletter is Out!
Hot off the presses, our end-of-year newsletter is yours for the clicking. In this edition:
- Nonprofit Software Dev Summit Caps a Rich Year of Events
- eAdvocacy Mentoring and Capacity Building Enters 4th year
- Help Us Test the Answr Platform
- New Aspiration Book: Open Translation Tools
- Doing Our Part to Create Better Tools and Resources
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Keeping the Momentum Going
After the wind down of the conference, and sleeping off my red-eye flight back to Maine, now I’m a little nostalgic. Ah, the people, the knowledge, the horrible geek trivia…
But to keep the momentum going, I thought I’d document the commitments I’ve made to move things forward – so at a minimum I’ll feel really guilty if I don’t follow through.
We crystallized a number of initiatives that I’m excited about:
Gaps in Nonprofit Software
Integration Discussion Off to a Flying Start
This afternoon’s session on integrating nonprofit software tools started off this continuing theme with some real life stories of the types of integration organizations are doing ( read the notes on the event wiki
Opening Session Audio now available
You can find it on blip.tv in MP4 format.
Video excerpts are on the way, but take more time to compress and/or select and upload.
Today’s haul: More than 30 gigs of DV format!
Diverse Opinions of the NPDev Community
The community-building activities at the start of the Summit revealed a surprising diversity of opinions within the npdev community. What most surprised me is that there’s mixed opinions about whether nonprofits are ideologically obligated to support open-source software. My own thought is that social entrepreneurship will take off in the tech sector, and there will be successful nonprofit businesses that promote and develop open-source software that is just as reliable and usable as any proprietary software: ethical dilemma solved.





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